Horses, ranches and farms in San Francisco Bay Area history
Before the bridges and the freeways, the Bay Area ran on horses and the farms that fed them. Each article here tells one piece of that history and lists its sources.
On June 3, 1913, the mayor of San Francisco took the reins of a horse-drawn streetcar and drove it up Market Street for the last time. The horse had been moving the city's people for more than half a century.
